From: masplund@cs.Helsinki.FI (aspa) Subject: Re: getpwuid 4 May 1997 07:35:56 -0700 Approved: cygnus.gnu-win32@cygnus.com Distribution: cygnus Message-ID: Reply-To: aspa@iki.fi Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-Sender: masplund@hydra Original-To: Ben Elliston Original-cc: gnu-win32@cygnus.com In-Reply-To: Original-Sender: owner-gnu-win32@cygnus.com On Sat, 3 May 1997, Ben Elliston wrote: > Does anyone know what the state of the implementation of getpwuid is? Is > it possible to have the structure filled in by this function completed > using details from the NT user database? > > I have some code which seems to be getting (null) when doing: > > getpwuid(geteuid()) > > Any ideas? i recall successfully using getpwuid() in b17.1. for the above example to work, you have to have a /etc/passwd entry for the euid running the code. -- aspa - For help on using this list (especially unsubscribing), send a message to "gnu-win32-request@cygnus.com" with one line of text: "help".